{"id":2061,"date":"2022-05-05T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/05\/the-manipulative-rhetoric-of-garrett-epps\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:37:24","slug":"the-manipulative-rhetoric-of-garrett-epps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/05\/the-manipulative-rhetoric-of-garrett-epps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manipulative Rhetoric of Garrett Epps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Keith Burgess-Jackson on a law professor <a href=\"https:\/\/burgessjackson.substack.com\/p\/the-manipulative-rhetoric-of-garrett?r=f3tzc&amp;s=r&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email\">gone amok<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Two years ago this past month, law professor Garrett Epps published a short essay entitled \u201cCommon-Good Constitutionalism Is an Idea as Dangerous as They Come\u201d in a high-brow literary magazine,&#0160;<em>The Atlantic<\/em>. That he published his essay in this organ rather than, say, a law review suggests that he was trying to reach non-specialists. The result, I am afraid to say, is a disaster. The essay is too simplistic to be of any use to his fellow law professors, but too arcane and abstract for many or most of the magazine\u2019s readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Burgess-Jackson on a law professor gone amok: Two years ago this past month, law professor Garrett Epps published a short essay entitled \u201cCommon-Good Constitutionalism Is an Idea as Dangerous as They Come\u201d in a high-brow literary magazine,&#0160;The Atlantic. That he published his essay in this organ rather than, say, a law review suggests that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/05\/the-manipulative-rhetoric-of-garrett-epps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Manipulative Rhetoric of Garrett Epps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-philosophy-of","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}